HAMILTON — Township department head Robert Warney, who sources say is the intermediary in the federal corruption case against Mayor John Bencivengo, on Monday announced he will be resigning from his position effective Wednesday.

“I’m doing this because it’s the right thing to do at this point,” said Warney, director of the township’s Department of Community Planning and Compliance. “No one asked me to resign. I’m resigning because I want to spend quality time with my family over the summer.”

Warney declined to comment on whether he’s involved in the corruption case against Bencivengo. “It’s still an ongoing federal investigation, and I really can’t comment at this point,” he said.

Bencivengo, 58, is accused of taking a $12,400 bribe last year in exchange for his official influence over a health insurance brokerage contract with the Hamilton Township School District. The two-term Republican mayor in public statements has said he’s innocent and won’t resign from office. In a state-required financial report, Bencivengo said the $12,400 he received was a “loan,” not a bribe.

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The indictment says the mayor used the intermediary to help conceal the bribes he allegedly took from Marliese Ljuba, the FBI’s cooperating witness who sources say secretly recorded Bencivengo’s alleged bribery. Ljuba was also the health insurance broker for the Hamilton Township School District, and Bencivengo allegedly took Ljuba’s bribes on a promise to influence the school district to keep Ljuba as the district’s broker.

Warney, who has served in Bencivengo’s cabinet since 2008, said he submitted his resignation letter on Monday to the administration, other department directors and township employees.

“In my letter, I put I’m resigning for personal reasons and to spend more quality time with my family,” said Warney, who is a married father with an 11-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter.

Warney said his job as department director “is the best job I’ve ever had,” and spoke highly of the township employees he directed. In his time as director, Warney said the township implemented a comprehensive landlord registration ordinance that helped promote safety in rental units and said there were “a lot of playground and park improvements.”

“We did a lot of good, so hopefully the residents see there was some good done there,” Warney said. He said he plans to spend the summertime with his family and later in the year will seek private sector work. He said private-sector companies have already expressed interest in hiring him.

Hamilton Councilman Ed Gore on Monday said he had no comment on Warney’s resignation. The four other council members on Monday couldn’t be reached for comment, and Bencivengo didn’t return a phone message seeking comment.

The Hamilton Township Democratic Party on Monday declined to comment on Warney’s pending resignation but said the all-Republican Township Council must “take their duties seriously and investigate whether any current, former, or soon-to-be-former municipal employees are party to the alleged bribery, extortion and money laundering charges against the mayor, either as ‘an intermediary’ or as a party to check fraud as alleged in the mayor’s indictment.”

Bencivengo was indicted last Thursday on five counts of corruption charges. The mayor is expected to soon be arraigned in federal court.